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Apr 19, 2019 Book of the Week — Le Nouveau Cuisinier Royal et Bourgeois

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Feb 25, 2018 Book of the Week — De Magnete magneticisqve corporibvs et de magna magnete tellure; Physiologia noua, plurimus & orgumentis, & …

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“Non ex libris solum, sed ex rebus ipsis scientiam quaeritis.” Gvilielmi gilberti colcestrensis, medici londinensis, de magnete magneticisqve corporibvs, et de magno magnete tellure; phsiologia noua, plurimis & argumentis, & experimentis demonstrata William Gilbert (1540-1603) Londini: excvdebat P. Short, 1600 First edition QC751 G44 1600 This the only published work of...

Jan 31, 2018 Book of the Week — Glasshouse

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“[Joseph] Banks reported in 1788 to the British East India Company that the climate in parts of northeast India was perfect for growing Camillia sinensis, the bush that produces tea leaves. The plant turned out to be indigenous to the Assam area, which eventually became...

Nov 27, 2017 Book of the Week — Los Espanoles pintados por si mismos por varios autores

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El Ama del Cura “Dear reader, it will not have escaped your insightful sensitivity that you are the friend to whom I have written from the beginning.” — Jose Maria Tenorio, loosely translated by Luise Poulton Los Espanoles pintados por si mismos por varios autores Madrid: Gaspar y...

Aug 24, 2017 Book of the Week — Prologue to the Tales of Caunterbury

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"For hym was levere have at his beddes heed Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie. But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre But al that he myghte of...

Jun 19, 2017 Book of the Week — Bashārat Yasuʻ al-Masīḥ kamā kataba Mār Mattay waḥid min ithnay ‘ashar min talāmīdhihi

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“Ne arbitremini quod ego uenetim ut mitterem super terram pacem; non ueni ut mitterem pacem, sed gladium (“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.)” — Matthew 10:34...

Jun 05, 2017 Book of the Week — Athanasii Kircheri Societatis Iesu Magnes; sive, de arte magnetica

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““The highest mountain, the oldest books, the strangest people, there you will find the stone.” — Attributed to Athanasius Kircher Athanasii Kircheri Societatis Iesu Magnes; sive, de arte magnetica Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) Romae: sumptibus Blasii Deuersin, & Zanobii Masotti Bibliopolarum typis Vitalis Mascarditypis V. Mascardi, MDCLIV (1654) Third and...

Jan 09, 2017 Book of the week — Unnoticed Like a Bird

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“The Three Hermits” Three old hermits took the air By a cold and desolate sea, First was muttering a prayer, Second rummaged for a flea; On a windy stone, the third, Giddy with his hundredth year, Sang unnoticed like a bird: ‘Though the Door of Death is near And what waits behind the door, Three...

Jan 05, 2017 We recommend — Saints at Devil’s Gate: Landscapes along the Mormon Trail

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“For aren’t we all on a journey that tries our faith, tests our courage, makes us vulnerable, and at times defeats us and blisters our soul?” — Laura Allred Hurtado Saints at Devil’s Gate: Landscapes along the Mormon Trail Laura Allred Hurtado and Byron C. Andreasen Salt Lake City,...

Nov 07, 2016 Book of the Week — Petri Gassendi Institutio Astronomica…

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“…senseless atoms, playing and toying up and down, without any care or thought, and from eternity trying all manner of tricks, conclusions and experiments, were at length (they know not how) taught, and by the necessity of things themselves, as it were, driven…so that though...

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Apr 19, 2019 Book of the Week — Le Nouveau Cuisinier Royal et Bourgeois

Feb 25, 2018 Book of the Week — De Magnete magneticisqve corporibvs et de magna magnete tellure; Physiologia noua, plurimus & orgumentis, & …

Jan 31, 2018 Book of the Week — Glasshouse

Nov 27, 2017 Book of the Week — Los Espanoles pintados por si mismos por varios autores

Aug 24, 2017 Book of the Week — Prologue to the Tales of Caunterbury

Jun 19, 2017 Book of the Week — Bashārat Yasuʻ al-Masīḥ kamā kataba Mār Mattay waḥid min ithnay ‘ashar min talāmīdhihi

Jun 05, 2017 Book of the Week — Athanasii Kircheri Societatis Iesu Magnes; sive, de arte magnetica

Jan 09, 2017 Book of the week — Unnoticed Like a Bird

Jan 05, 2017 We recommend — Saints at Devil’s Gate: Landscapes along the Mormon Trail

Nov 07, 2016 Book of the Week — Petri Gassendi Institutio Astronomica…

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